Nature offers endless evidence of the infinite intelligence underlying all creation. For example, a single flock of birds may contain hundreds of individuals but they fly in perfect formation and simultaneously change direction in an instant, without an obvious leader directing their flight patterns. Keep Reading
Where's Deepak
Oct 1–3 Evanston, IL
Oct 8 Scranton, PA
Oct 14–15 Mexico City
Oct 16-19 Carlsbad, CA
Oct 22 Indianapolis, IN
Oct 27–Nov 1 San Diego, CA
Nov 3–7 Carlsbad, CA
Free Teleconference
Join us for a special hour-long teleconference hosted by our much loved (and entertaining) lead educator, davidji. Create community by inviting your friends to join in on a discussion about
Finding Balance in Your Life. davidji will lead you through a brief guided meditation, share tips to relieve stress and reduce anxiety, lead you in breathing practices, and more.
October 15 at 4pm PDT
Sign up here
Living Perfect Health
When you are feeling overwhelmed or anxious, it's easy to forget that you have choices and that there are many tools and techniques that can help you feel better right away . . . Read more
What We Are Reading
Invite Joy Into Your Life
by Mary Seger
Mary is one our certified Perfect Health-Ayurveda instructors.
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill McKibben
Balancing Your Doshas
Stay in balance during Vata season: Practical ideas to keep you grounded and vibrant during the cold months ahead. Keep reading
What We Are Eating
Simple Pumpkin Soup
Our recipe can be found here
Words of Wisdom
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
~ Buddha
Chopra Center Spotlight
Claire Diab, Director of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga Teacher Training program
Read about Claire here
Words of Wisdom
“I feel this pang inside—
Is it my soul trying to break out,
Or the world's soul trying to break in?”
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Dream On
This Oct. 23–25, The Chopra Center & Spa@Dream in New York is offering Perfect Health Rasayana. Receive daily Ayurvedic spa treatments, instruction in Primordial Sound Meditation, and guidance in mind-body healing. Read more here
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own."
~ Benjamin Disraeli
"I am not in the world . . . the world is in me," says Lord Krishna in the classic Indian epic The Bhagavad Gita. And although it may sometimes feel that we are alone on this third rock from the sun – a tiny individual separate from everyone else on this enormous planet – we are indeed a network of individual expressions that make up one global community.
This edition of Namasté celebrates community and its power to create a tipping point . . . a critical mass that makes possible a transformation in global perspective. Through community we can create awareness, change, momentum, and follow-through. Through community we can leverage our ability to share light and love with those in our world and transform that world by simply being. Through community we can grow past conditioned social constrictions, expand beyond our collective limiting beliefs, and recognize our universality in the process.
The Namasté network has several hundred thousand like-minded individuals tapping into the aspect of The Chopra Center that most resonates with them. Every morning, many thousands of people across the globe log on to Chopra.com for their Daily Inspiration; each week, tens of thousands share in our "meditation moment" featured in Mini-Namasté; and every year, thousands of individuals seeking clarity, inspiration, and community attend a Chopra Center event, learn Primordial Sound Meditation, or visit The Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California.
In the past several years, more than one thousand people around the world have become Chopra Center certified instructors so that they can be the touchpoint of community, bringing the gift and power of meditation, yoga, and mind-body healing to their homes, workplaces, and inner circles.
We feel immense gratitude for the members of our extended community and the endless flow of love, support, and inspiration circulating in perfect accordance with the Law of Giving and Receiving. Know that wherever you live, whatever your age and experiences, you have the ability to build community by sharing the message of light, love, compassion, and transcendence. You have the ability to make a difference. You have the choice of living a meaningful life . . . a life that not only touches you but one that reaches beyond your own body and self to touch others. But it starts with you – we transform the world by transforming ourselves.
In our global quest for critical mass, we encourage you to share this Namasté and its message of expansion with everyone you know. Simply click on "Pass the Prana" and share this timeless wisdom with as many people in your address book as you can. Bean by bean, the bag gets filled. Step by step, through our worldwide community of loving, committed souls, we will bring peace, abundance, and transformation to the planet Earth.
In love and gratitude,
The Chopra Center Staff
We wish you love, health, and abundance and encourage you to send us your comments, insights, and suggestions to feedback@chopra.com.
Create Your Own Community for Health and Transformation!
Special Group Rates!
If you want to share an unforgettable experience of healing, and personal growth with those you love, we offer special group rates for our workshops and events.
At every Chopra Center program, you deepen your connection to yourself and experience expanded states of awareness and understanding that enrich all of your relationships. When you can share the journey of transformation with those closest to you, it becomes even more meaningful. You build a supportive community with the same desire for greater health, balance, and peace of mind.
We invite you to connect with one of our Program Consultants and learn more about our special group rates. Our Program Consultants are a great resource to help you build your community group. Call us at 888.736.6895 or click here to request more information
Featured Workshop
Experience SynchroDestiny
in the Sweet Spot of the Universe
January 7-11, 2009 at La Costa Resort, California
The Chopra Center invites you to jump-start your New Year with SynchroDestiny - our exclusive transformation experience based on Deepak Chopra's classic bestseller The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Power of Coincidence.
At SynchroDestiny, Deepak will show you how to move beyond limiting thought-patterns and master the universal laws for creating a life filled with joy, purpose, and love. Request more information here or call us at 888.736.6895
October Global Peace Meditation
We are excited to lead another Global Peace Meditation during our upcoming Seduction of Spirit retreat. Join us from wherever you are the week of October 27-Nov 1 in this global meditation. We will have a live audio feed of Deepak's guided meditation from the event. We will send an email with more details, so please keep your eye on your inbox over the next couple weeks.
Meditation Q&A
Q: Despite my best efforts to “retrain” my mind, I find it difficult to overcome some of my negative thought patterns. Can meditation help me move beyond some of these old ingrained ways of thinking and feel better about myself?
A: Yes, meditation is one of the surest ways to let go of old habits and habitual reactions. As you have discovered, it isn't possible to purify the mind just by thinking about it. A fearful mind can’t conquer its own fear, and anger can’t quench anger. Meditation is a powerful tool for going beyond the domain where fear, anger, and all forms of emotional toxicity hold sway.
When you meditate, you enter deeper and deeper levels of yourself until you enter the space of pure awareness. The silence of pure awareness is extremely refreshing to the mind, which finds it increasingly easy not to cling to old thought patterns; rigid habits of thinking and feeling begin to fall away of their own accord. It’s a kind of letting go, allowing yourself simply to be. Meditation is a gradual process, but as you continue to meditate, your experience of clarity and wellbeing will expand and become the norm, extending out into your life beyond your meditation sessions. As you take your mind back to its source, over and over, it will become free of outmoded patterns and beliefs that no longer serve you.
